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Nutrition
Better food seen as key in AIDS treatment

Inadequate access to nutritious food is associated with increased hospitalizations and emergency room visits among HIV-positive individuals, and ensuring that patients have enough to eat may need to be a priority for the doctors and nurses who treat them, the San Francisco Chronicle says. In a paper released Wednesday, the scientists reported that 56 percent of HIV-positive patients who are homeless or living in substandard housing are also food insecure, which is defined as a regular inability to obtain enough healthy food. The researchers looked at 347 HIV patients, all of whom live in San Francisco.

Published
22 August 2012
From
San Francisco Chronicle
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
SOUTH AFRICA: Mother-to-child HIV transmission still falling

South Africa has charted a significant decline in mother-to-child HIV transmission for the second consecutive year, with new data showing that just 2.7 percent of babies born to HIV-positive mums contracted the virus by six weeks of age, compared to 8 percent in 2008.

Published
24 July 2012
From
PlusNews Global
TB treatment
UCSF/SFGH Researchers Call for Change in New FDA Recommendation on HIV and TB Drug Doses

In January, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new guidelines on dosing of an HIV medication used to treat people infected with both HIV and tuberculosis (TB). Now, a new analysis by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) suggests this recommended dose adjustment may not be necessary, particularly in non-Caucasian populations.

Published
24 July 2012
From
USCF News Center
Access to medicines and treatment
For Americans with HIV, there are many obstacles to successful treatment

The big issues in HIV treatment in the US are how to find the patients, test them, get them into medical care and keep them there, provide them medicines, educate them and follow their progress.

Published
23 July 2012
From
The Washington Post
Starting treatment
International group urges prompt HIV treatment for all

An international group of scientists on Sunday called for all adults who test positive for HIV to be treated with antiretroviral drugs right away rather than waiting for their immune systems to weaken.

Published
23 July 2012
From
Google News
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Treatment Benefits For All?

CATIE’s James Wilton explores the use of HIV treatment to reduce the risk of HIV transmission. Do the personal and public health benefits coincide or clash?

Published
26 June 2012
From
CATIE - The Positive Side
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Is treatment as prevention ready to roll out, or do we need to know more?

Major randomised studies of the impact of antiretroviral treatment expansion on new infections are getting underway, and should provide important evidence to guide further implementation, researchers reported at

Published
15 June 2012
By
Keith Alcorn
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
World Health Organization sets out route map for scale-up of treatment as prevention

The number of people eligible for antiretroviral treatment will grow by around six million as a result of recent World Health Organization recommendations on the use

Published
11 June 2012
By
Keith Alcorn
Access to medicines and treatment
South Africa: Addressing Tenofovir Shortages

The inability of contracted pharmaceutical companies to produce enough of the antiretroviral drug, Tenofovir, has forced the Health Department to increase the number of manufacturers that can produce the medicine in the face of worrying shortages.

Published
08 June 2012
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AllAfrica
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
New report: evaluating HIV treatment as prevention in the European context

The report concludes that antiretroviral treatment has well-documented benefits for reducing the transmission of HIV, and has had a major impact on reducing HIV acquisition among children born to HIV positive mothers. However, the policy of treatment as prevention cannot be universally applied to all persons diagnosed with HIV without understanding whether there is a benefit for the individual’s health.

Published
07 June 2012
From
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) press release
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